A gynaecologist says a doctor at the heart of an inquiry was “not entitled” to recommend medication that would end a mother’s early pregnancy.

A 35 year old pregnant woman died due to a tear in the abdomen during the course of laparoscopic surgery for an ectopic pregnancy, an inquest has heard. 

The parents of a baby girl who suffered a spinal injury during a forceps-assisted delivery and died 24 years ago have questions about her end of life care.

The failure to report the death of a baby girl at the Coombe Hospital to the coroner’s office 24 years ago has been described as a “travesty”.

Children are ‘almost guaranteed’ to get into difficulty at a specific attraction at the National Aquatic Centre (NAC), an inquest heard.

A woman who had minor elective surgery at a private hospital in Dublin died less than two weeks later, an inquest has heard.

The Government was warned before it passed the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act that the law would create problems of the kind that have arisen in the current abortion controversy.

The Taoiseach is being urged to bring politicians back from their holidays to discuss our abortion laws, after a woman was refused a termination.

Questions are being raised as to whether the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act needs to be amended, after a pregnant suicidal woman was refused an abortion under the new legislation.

A six-year-old girl was referred to hospital a number of times over a five-year period with vomiting and dehydration but no underlying cause had been established when she died, an inquest heard.

A young woman with anorexia is to be force fed following a decision in the High Court.

The Department of Health has said a termination carried out at the National Maternity Hospital in Holles St did not take place under Ireland's new abortion regime.

Proposed changes to Ireland’s abortion regime legislate for the killing of babies, it has been claimed.

It is as if the cabinet lobbed the abortion issue into the committee and ran for cover as havoc ensued, writes Michael Clifford.

A leading barrister said the government will need to rethink the proposed abortion laws when it comes to appeals such as if a woman is refused a termination under the suicide ground.

A leading doctor and barrister has warned that under the draft abortion legislation, a woman who wants to terminate her pregnancy because she is suicidal could have grounds to take a discrimination case on the grounds of mental health.

A Medical Council inquiry has been told that two accounts of what was said between a consultant and his patient directly contradict each other.

AS the country reeled last week, after it realised it was possible to have an informed debate on abortion that didn’t degenerate into a spittle-flecked free-for-all, Lucinda Creighton donned her assault gear and decided to hell with the détente.

In his submission to the Oireachtas hearings Dr Simon Mills describes the draft wording of the proposed Termination of Pregnancy Bill as a “first stab”.

A constitutional amendment is not needed to allow for the abortion of a foetus that has no chance of survival outside the womb, legal experts have argued.

Retired Supreme Court judge Mrs Justice Catherine McGuinness has said the X Case is the law and must be legislated for.

A legal expert is voicing concern at a number of proposals said to be contained in the report from the expert group on abortion.

There is further pressure on the Government to legislate for medical abortions, following the death of Savita Halappanavar.

A coroner has pointed to a number of risk factors, including the use of forceps, during the birth of a newborn baby who died one week later.

AN inquest has heard that a forceps used in a delivery “most probably” caused a skull fracture and bleeding in a newborn boy, who died a week later.

A DOCTOR representing the family of a woman who died suddenly following routine surgery has criticised the Bon Secours Hospital in Glasnevin for not having facilities to deal with common post-operative complications when they carry out operations.

STUNNED Londoners counted the cost of the pillaging and tried to clear up the mess yesterday as fears grew of what lay ahead for them last night.

A DOCTOR has been accused of failing to diagnose a heart attack in a man who came to him with chest pains when he was on duty at an out-of-hours GP service in the south.

More Jehovah’s Witnesses are booked in to give birth at a hospital that controversially gave a pregnant woman a blood transfusion against her will, the High Court heard today.

Lawyers for a Nigerian man who denies murdering his Jamaican wife with a lump hammer today asked the victim’s sister whether she was mistaken about who had assaulted her sister in the past.

A DECISION by two Dublin hospitals to postpone a cancer drug trial because patients were being asked to use contraception has been described as “unacceptable” and “bizarre” by the opposition.